December 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The CEO shooter's fan club & the people cheering for murder
- Healthcare in America
- We're being invaded by drones
- Christmas traditions
- Dick Van Dyke escapes house fire at 99 years old
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
In Seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road
sign threatening other CEOs the city, blaming a private construction contractor.
At the University of Pennsylvania, where Menhioni graduated with engineering degrees,
an assistant professor appeared to praise the CEO's murder in
this TikTok video, saying she's never been prouder to be
a professor there, later saying she was regretful and doesn't
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condone violence.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, except you just did publicly, Yeah, proudly and cheerfully. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I was reading the column in the New York Posts
from David hers Sonny's seems to be an actual debate
going on in the progressive left over whether slaying CEOs
is a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, And you see those posters going up in
New York essentially urging people to hunt down other CEOs
with their pictures and stuff like that. I guarantee there
is a ninety nine point six percent overlap between the
people putting up those posters and people tearing down posters
of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Sure that same
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angry radical left nihilist, over educated moron class that's screwing
up so much about what is good in this country.
More on that attitude in a minute. Had a weird thing,
interesting thing happened on news Nation yesterday. A reporter facilitating
communication between prisoners were the murder scumbags being held and
(01:55):
the report, well, let's listen to it.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Let me tell them a question, Alex, hold on, let
me yell a question, guys, if you can hear me clearly,
do you guys have any sights on Luigi MANGIONI just
yell yes or no.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know if they're answering. They're flickering up.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're saying no, okay, so they're actually watching her on
TV in the prison, and then it's it's a little
delayed from before it gets to her, and then they no,
we can't see him.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, do you have a follow up? Wait? Wait, wait, yeah,
that's that's kind of funny. I I almost want to
hear more of that. What else? What else did she ask?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I know a lot of you are in the News Nation.
I have too many friends who are like avid watchers
of News Nation. I've got to get on board and
start recordings some of their shows on a regular basis
like I do every other cable cham.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm behind the curve on that. Yeah, I know a
lot of you that you are that I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
more sources is good if you have the time. We
played this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But to bring back up the conversation, this is Bill Burr,
comedian who i'm I'm a big fan of his comedy act.
This particular attitude he has would destroy the country.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So that's a problem.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
You know what's annoying me about this, This kid who
killed this CEO is none of these news programs are
talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general
public about this because of how these insurance companies treat
people when they are at their most vulnerable, after we've
all given them our money every month and now we
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finally need you, and all you do is deny us,
and then these and all of these things are taking
the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know,
I gotta be honest with you, Okay, I love that
the CEOs are afraid right now, you should be, by
and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces,
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and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just
don't pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
See a lot of.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Those things in what he said there are true or
can be true, but don't have any connection to so
you can scare or or or violently attack or murder CEOs.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right, are a.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Lot of companies greedy and sometimes CEOs are greedy and amoral? Yeah, sure,
I'm sure that happens in all kinds of industries. But
what's that got to do with. You can either murder
them in the street or have them be afraid to
do their jobs the way they want because you will.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hurt them or murder them. Play this through.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I realize you're an artist, Bill Burr, but anybody who
has this mindset play this out for me. How would
this work? How would society be structured? If mob violence
is the way people approach their job every day? Is
the mob going to kill me or my family today?
Are they happy with this move?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I can do it? Okay, I mean, how would this work? Well?
I think Bill Burt would answer you in his charming
Boston accent and explain to you that, well, companies would
reform and behave more responsibly so they aren't gone down
on the pavement by self righteous little rich boys.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Okay, well, I would say to Bill Burr, I wish
I could have this conversation with him, because's pretty smart guy,
and I'd love to talk to him because I'm a fan.
But hey, Bill Burr, you are a very edgy comedian
and you make jokes about trans people and all kinds
of different sort of stuff. So what if the trans
community decided your causing harm in their community, and so
they threaten you physically to come around to their thinking,
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or they're going to hurt you or shoot you in
the street. Then how do you where do you draw
the line on these things?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I'm not as bad as a healthcare ceo. They
murder tens of thousands of people. Yeah, well, the trans
folks are gonna say, yeah, you caused thousands of duds,
You've made the world unsaved, blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean,
you're obviously right. It's it's worth kicking Elizabeth Warren one
more time, At least briefly. Charlie Cook was writing about
this review A beer that's my favorite I'm gonna have
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me a beer. You gotta throw in that. Look how
normal I and down to earth I am. I'm gonna
have me a beer. Well, Harford academic has never uttered
in her life firewater indeed anyway, So she was one
of those people. Violence is never the answer, but people
can only be pushed so far. Then she explains why
it was justified to gun this poor son of a
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gun down on the pavement, as Charlie Cook mentions. But
then he reminds us all. Oh. First of all, he
compares her to John Fetterman, who said, of the shooter,
he's the a hole. It's gonna die in prison. And
about anybody celebrating online, Fetterman said, a sore is going
to soar. That's what social media is about. I don't
know why the media wants to turn this into a story.
(07:01):
These trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously. But of
course these trolls anonymously include your fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren,
who is saying it publicly. But Fetterman went on, remember
he had two children that are going to grow up
without their father. It's vile. And if you've gunned someone
down that you don't happen to agree with their views
or the business they're in. Hey, you know, I'm next,
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They're next, He's next, She's next, And as Charlie Cook writes,
Americans seeking good examples should resolve to be a fetterman
rather than a Warren. But then he points out that
she her cabal. You know, like in the NFL, they
have coaching trees, a bunch of the assistant coaches of
a Bill Belichick become head coaches and their assistant coaches,
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and because they influence each other and they end up being,
you know, just the source of great coaches. Elizabeth Warren,
her cabal became the Biden administration and pushed him way
to the left. She was also the person that pushed
Kamala Harris way way to the left. In twenty nineteen,
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during the campaign, she of her skinny old Northeastern woman academic,
you know image. She's she is unbelievably effective radical leftist
who has really screwed up the Democratic Party right.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
So she went on the warpath against anybody who didn't
agree with her and sent up smoke signals to let
them know, Hey, if you get on the wrong side
of me.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Right, and well played there. I don't think I didn't
notice that. I appreciate I appreciate you completely ignoring it.
Final note from Charlie Cook. She pushed everybody way left.
It should have been obvious that Warren was a crank
when she started tweeting out sentiments such as and this
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is a quote, black, trans and CIS women, gender, nonconformed
and non binary people are the backbone of our democracy.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Wow, she speak with FOURK tongue, but it was not clear.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
If it was not clear, then the consequences of her
influence have now made the indictment clear. Of Warren is
a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and
a disaster for the basic human decency that we are
entitled to expect from our politicians. No ifs or butts
apply a reference to her, well you shouldn't kill people,
but he had it coming speech. Yeah. So, the good
(09:30):
folks at Reason dot com with a great, great piece
entitled the people Cheering Brian Thompson's murder can't have the
medical utopia that they want, whether private or public. Third
party payment for healthcare is a huge problem, and this
dovetails beautifully with what Craig the healthcare Guru was saying
on the show yesterday and if you didn't listen to it,
(09:52):
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yesterday's Armstrong Getty show Armstrong and Getty on demand. Instead
of rushing through this like a maniac when we you know,
take a break and come back to it. But the
realities of you know, third party payment screw everything up,
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Speaker 4 (11:24):
Oh, drones have been spotted in Germany now similar to
the ones in New Jersey and across the country. All right,
we'll have the update on the whole drone story also
this hour's of Stay Tuned arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I hope people fully.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Recognize this is a funny thing to say over the
beach boys singing at Christmas song.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I hope people fully realize.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What a dangerous philosophy is going on here with the
whole I'm glad the CEO got gunned down thing. This
is not just your normal left right back and forth,
look how bad the others. This is the sort of
thing that catches on in societies and is very hard
to stop once it gets going.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yes, yeah, absolutely true. And it's also undeniable that if
somebody on the right says we need to target this district,
you're accused of fulling violence. Right. But if you say
we ought to gun down these mother blankers and then
they get gunned down, left says what me? Who may?
But having said that, it's interesting that eighty one percent
of people with private and health insurance are happy with
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their insurance in America. Now, granted, when you do need it,
and there's that push and pull of no, you can't
have this test done, or you got to ask him
twice or whatever. That's a really uncomfortable thing and it
makes people mad. But and maybe it could be done better.
We're not on the take from United Healthcare or anybody
else around here. We're just trying to get to the
bottom of it.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But would you answer that question yes or no? Are
you happy with your health insurance? I'm a no, I
am Actually I was happier before Obamacare, when before more
deductibles became whatever they are, four thousand dollars for my family.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's insane. Yeah, in general, I am. But you know,
I've been reasonably healthy too, which is, you know, kind
of an indictment right there. I suppose to. He's going
to be, you know, work on being more grateful.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I went through cancer and it got mostly paid for,
and that could have not happened, I suppose. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It reminds me of you know, people who trust the
government to do all things well and good. Those are
people who never deal with the government. Anybody who's ever
spent a minute at a zoning office or whatever, it
doesn't feel that way anyway. The folks at Reason dot
com with a great, great piece. JD. Tussil wrote it,
I hope I'm saying his name right, but evoking a
collective scream of despair from socialists and anti corporate types.
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Police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mandi and menu we know
who he is, Thompson. They insist the murder victim stood
in the way of the sort of healthcare that they
think they deserve, and shooting him down on the street
was some sort of bloody minded strike for justice. The
assassin's fans and the legal system has yet to convict
anybody fur the crime are moral degenerates. But they're also
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dreaming if they think insurance executives like Thompson or all
that stands between them and they are visions of a
single pair medical system that satisfies every desire. While there
is a lot wrong with the main way healthcare is
paid for and delivered in the US, what the haters
want is probably not achievable, and the means many of
them prefer would make things worse. There's an old joke
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among health policy wonks according from a Cato Institute. According
to a Cato Institute guy from twenty seventeen, what the
American people really want from healthcare reform is unlimited care
from the doctor of their choice, with no way free
of charge. Correct. The problem, no matter how healthcare is
delivered is that it requires labor, time, and resources that
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are available in finite supply. Somebody must decide how to
allocate medications, treatments, physicians, and hospital beds, and how to
pay for at all. And a common assumption in some
circles is that Americans ration medicine by price, handing an
advantage to the wealthy and sticking it to the poor.
Of course, and they quote Vox. Of course, the alternatives,
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supposedly is one where healthcare is universal, with bills paid
by government, so everyone has access to care, except most
Americans rely on somebody else to pay the bulk of
their medical bills, just like Canadians, Germans and Britons. And
while there are huge differences among the systems presented as
alternatives to what we do in the US, third party payers,
whether government or insurance companies, do enormous damage to the
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provision of healthcare. This is something Craig the healthcare Guru,
and I have also been saying for the longest time.
When you establish a giant, profitable middleman to get between
me and my doctor, that's not going to serve me.
It complicates things, It clouds things. They write. Contrary to
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conventional wisdom, health insurance, private or otherwise does not make
health care affordable. Right Roade an expert back in twenty thirteen,
the third party payment system is the principal force behind
healthcare price inflation in the US. The dominance a third
party payment, whether United Healthcare or others, or Medicare or
Medicaid or something else, makes it difficult to know the
price for procedures medicines and treatments, because there really isn't
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one price when third party payers are involved, it's all
the subject of giant, complex negotiations. You pay three hundred dollars,
I pay fifteen hundred dollars, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
In the room next to you, right, Or when the truble,
when I was going to pay cash for a scan
that wasn't going to be covered by insurance years ago,
shopped around. The price was so different depending on where
he was, Like, why if I drive twenty miles.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Over here, I say four hundred dollars? Why? And again,
different kinds of people pay wildly different prices at the
same facility on the same day, right, which is insane.
I'd love to drill down on that a little more,
but we don't have on a time I wanted to
get to this part. When government lawyers are third party
assurances responsible for paying the bills, consumers have no incentive
to control costs. After all, the premiums already paid, right,
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or the tax is already paid, right, So why do
I care if it's bloated or inflating or whatever. And
then they get into quite appropriately, how government run health
care systems have these problems and more because instead of profit,
you have taxes being taken from people run through the
bureaucracy then paying for the doctors and nurses and medicines
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and stuff like that. So it's really scarce and it's
rationed by time. It takes twenty eight weeks in Canada
between your referral to a specialist and when you get
to see them. Oh my god, would you like me
to do that math for you. I'll give you a
hunt a hint. Six months would be twenty four weeks
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and it takes twenty eight weeks. Wow. Yeah, Wow. Rationing
happens everywhere. Man, There's more to be said on this,
and that is pretty interesting. Hey, we're being invaded by drones.
Is everybody aware of that? Yeah, being invaded by drunes
by the.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hype, the Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We should be doing some very virgin intelligence analysis and
take them out of the GUIs, especially if they're flying
over airports or military basis. Shouould be shot down if necessary.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That Senator Richard Blumenthal, so not a US House member, senator,
is a bigger deal and a respected senator at least
by the media saying we should shoot down the mysterious
drones and nobody's able to identify yet. Now, yesterday we
had the congress person from New Jersey saying there was
an Iranian mothership off shore and all that kind of
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crazy talk, and nobody has any idea what that guy's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You'd think Blumenthal, with his access to.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's not classified information, but lots of information, would know
whether it's necessary to shoot them down or not. Based
at this point.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I would think he'd have access either direct like give
me the file, or know who to talk to, yeah,
to any information? Or are we actually that completely ignorant
of what the heck is going on? So here's a
different congress person, also from New Jersey. I haven't heard
this one yet.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
I understand why so many in our community in our
state are concerned when you hear reports of drones flying
above us or see activity yourself, and federal agencies responsible
for controlling the airspace don't properly and quickly brief the public.
I want you to know that, based on the information
the briefings that I've received to date, I'm not concerned
about any imminent threats to public safety or our national
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security regarding these drones. But and I've made this very
clear to the FBI, the Homeland Security in the FAA,
the agency is chiefly responsible for monitoring drowne activity. They
must immediately disclose more information to the public. It's totally
completely unacceptable that you have all this drone activity going
on that people are sitting with their own eyes. And
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even if it's not all drone activity, and some of
it is manned aircraft, there appears to be plenty of
drone activity that people are seeing their own eyves. The
fact that the federal agency is responsible for briefing the
public have not come forward in a clear way is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He needs to wake up, Pink. He's ignoring the Iranian mothership.
But yeah, here's the mothership, dude, Well here's the real deal, Harris.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the
Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people and from
very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'm going to tell you the real deal.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that
contains these drones.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal.
It's off.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
The he's to the United States of America. They've launched
thrones is everything that we can see over here, and
the gun These are from high sources.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't say this lightly. Yeah, they're high.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
All right, Well that's interesting, So Hanson's sake, whichever, those
are two different districts in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I want to know the media and IQ of each
of those two districts, because the one guy certainly seemed
like an upgrade over that guy.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, yeah, so Hanson, our executive producer. Hanson's take on
the other guy was he knows what they are and
isn't worried about them, but he can't say and he's
his message is, Hey, the people who have are the
clearance to say need to say what these things are?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ah? Yeah, is that the way you took it? Yeah? Yeah, Well,
and you've got to combine all of that with the
fact that now oldership Hank, everybody who sees anything larger
than a sparrow in the sky is saying, look, it's
one of those drones. You know, if it's some kid hobbyist,
or it's it's the regularly scheduled flight from lax to
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Las Vegas or whatever. Everybody's now it's it's like you said,
it's like the Salem witch hunt. Everybody's seeing witches in
the woods, which is a witch. Yeah, drones have been
spotted in Germany now, so it had spread across whist
they have. It'd been spotted spread across the United States yesterday,
and now they's been spotted in Germany now, no new Germany, Michael.
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They've been spotted at your local hobby store too. What
do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I spotted them over a new house that's having an
open house on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, no kidding. So yeah, it's become silly and confusing,
and there still might be something menacing going on. Witness
the Chinese freaking spy balloon or all of the software
sleeping in all of our systems right now planted by
the Chai cooms and all the spies in America. You're
not Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. Well, okay,
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play play fifty. This is John Kirby.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I mean he's as high up a spokesman that anybody
trusts as you can get in the White House.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities,
we have not been able to and neither have state
or local law enforcement of authorities corroborate any of the
reported visual sightings.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So is he saying there aren't a videotape on the news?
So is he saying there aren't any drones? I mean
that it's all made up. Maybe we should hear the
rest of us roll on.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We're concerned about it too.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
We are still investigating this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I can't tell you definitively.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I cannot characterize for you definitively what these sightings are.
I can just go back to what I said at
the opening.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We've looked at the imagery.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
We can't corroborate some of the reported sightings through our
own expert analysis using sophisticated detection techniques. But that doesn't
mean that, you know, we're putting our pen down here
this afternoon and calling in a day. We have no
evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose
a national security or a public safety threat.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
See.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That's the thing that has been driving me crazy for
several days, is the constant we don't know what these are.
They aren't a threat. Those two sentences can't go together, right, right,
That doesn't make any sense. You know what the perfect
storm that I just realize it is occurring. The public
is going to demand something be done. We're only like
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ten days away. The United States Air Force is going
to shoot down Santa Oh lord, that's what's going to
end up happening.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That's the worst possible outcome. It's among them me reindeer
meat everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Oh my god, toys scattered across the countryside.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, you wanted sometwn We shut some down. You're happy? Yeah,
it was, well, that was you know what. Honestly, you
remember after the whole Chinese spy balloon nightmare, and they did.
Biden is shockingly the Mummy in his administration didn't react
at all. Then, as it became clear how horrifying that was,
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they shot down every kid's birthday balloon in America for
about a week, just so they look strong and decisive.
I forgot about that. So yeah, you keep.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
That in your the back of your mind while you're
listening to all this. The US government at the highest
level is capable of incredible flailing. I mean that was flailing,
Like I'm in charge. You let the one thing go
clear gouns the country. Then you started shooting down gender
revealed balloons.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Depression weather Boy Scout packs doing an experiment for their
Eagle Scout Badge Bully. There goes the balloon.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Stupid though, Santa gonna be blasted out of a sky
by an ICBM if you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Heard it here first. That's a lot of ordinance for
one obese gentleman and a sleigh guided by diminutive reindeer.
Why are they tiny reindeer in the popular conception of
Santa Claus because they would have to be fairly small
to fit on most roofs.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You're gonna make Tim the lawyer call in. This is
one of his things.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh no, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Really, the invention of the whole Santa sleigh reindeer thing
came from I believe Coca Cola, and Tim is big
on this. But they were, as it says in the
songs eight Tiny Reindeer. Everything was miniature, but somehow got
blown up over time to like regular size. And that
really bothers him that the origin story has been lost. Yeah,
because in all of your movies you got full size reindeer,
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like the size of a horse up on your roof, right,
and that's full sized sleigh and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So was the sleigh tiny as well as the reindeer,
because I'm familiar with the reference to eight tiny reindeer,
but nobody references the size of the sleigh. And I
don't need all of specs. I'm not, you know, that
serious about it. You know, my kids are and Santa's
normal size, right or is No, He's a jolly little elf.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
My kids are past the age now of the of this.
And on one hand, you know the magic has gone
of just that whole thing. When Santa is full on
real and the wonder and everything. It's just it's nothing
could be more fantastic. As a child or a parent,
It's a hell of a lot easier this way, much easier.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
We had so many wonderful traditions with the kids. I mean,
just I'll tear up thinking about it, but I mean
it was the It was the stockings and we would
put out reindeer foods Santa's reindeer and they would eat it.
Then he would leave candy in their their shoes, I mean,
because they would read about various cultures at school or
be told about him and their Christmas celebrations, and they'd say,
(27:54):
we should put our shoes out. What am I gonna
say no, put your damn shoes back in the closet.
That's fun to American Santa doesn't mess with people's shoes.
He messes with their.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Socks if they're hung by a fireplace for some reason,
hanging with careless, slovenly, hanging, zero presence.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So anyway, Yeah, there would be shoes to fill, and
the reindeer food would be put out, and that was
oatmeal and glitter. And then two continue the the the
loving idea that indeed the reindeer had been there consuming
the reindear food, somebody would have to clean it up
(28:35):
well by eating it, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, yeah I did that. I'd almost forgotten many times.
It just helped got to eat part of the cookie.
Oh that Yeah, of course Grant was here. Nature cookie.
That stuff is awesome, But like I said, it's not
as wonderful now, but it's certainly easier. What is that
thing you wanted? Okay, I got it at the store.
It'll be under the tree considerably less magic.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yes, it's cute if your kid is five, but if
he's seventeen, it's not cute. No eh. Yeah, the UK
that the other day has postponed indefinitely hormone treatments for
momentarily confused adolescents. The National Health Authority just backtracked and
(29:23):
said no, trans women cannot breastfeed. After all, it's a
bad idea. The quote unquote milk is not comparable to
a woman's real breast milk. Yeah, as the comment went
to the story, I'm absolutely shocked that men can't breastfeed.
This is real breaking news, shocking stuff. You how did
(29:44):
we get swept away by such madness? Well, and it's
continuing in a lot of quarters.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
But man, I got If you're taking so many drugs
that you start to leak out your male nipples and
then you're trying to feed an infant with that, you
are crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, agreed, Yeah, yeah, Wow. Super human elves delivering packages
worldwide at speeds that defy Einstein's series is reasonable compared
to that. You're right, You're right? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Any comment on any of this?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
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Speaker 1 (30:27):
The eve of his ninety ninth birthday, beloved actor Dick
Van Dyke now sharing the harrowing moment he narrowly evacuated
this week's wildfire in Malibu.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
I forgot how old I am, and I realized I
was crawling to get out anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Twenty something appear as the wind driven Franklin fire came
down the canyon behind his home.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I have a fire hose the hooks up to my pool.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Van Dyke tried to douse the house, but it proved
too much.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I thought, my god, I'm not going to make it
out of here. Because I was trying to crawl to
the car.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I had exhausted my I couldn't get a Three neighbors
came and carried me out and came back and put
a little fire in the guest house and saved me
than gone for them.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Dick Van Dyke ninety nine today, ninety nine years old today.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Happy birthday. Dick hooked up.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
A fire hose to his pool and was trying to
spray off the house himself. Exhausted himself so much. I
get so tired at my I'm half his age. Uh
to uh do things like that. I can't imagine being
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, Wow, sounds great.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, man, genetics and lifestyle. I don't know how much
of it is which, but who Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I got some doctor friends who Well, genetics, you've.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Got to have because my dad has it. I mean,
my dad absolutely has like the Dick Van Dyke genetics.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, you can ruin your genetic advantage with your life, sure, absolutely,
but you cannot cancel your genetic disadvantage with a great
life style. He might be able to, you know, help,
there's certainly no reason not to be healthy. But you
know what I'm driving at all.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Those times he tripped over the ottoman and didn't break
a hip or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What a talented dude, Oh my gosh, and a good
man too by all accounts.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I was referring to the opening of the Dick Van
Dyke Show, which was in black and white. That's how
old that show is. And so his heyday was what
nineteen sixty is that when he was like at the
beak of his popularity long before we were born.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Uh yeah, ish, I mean he continued to be a
loved figure in movie Oh yeah, yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, yeah, he was old when he was in those
Disney movies when I was a kid, though middle aged certainly.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, though he could hoof it like a kid.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Elon tweets about Doge a lot the Department of Government
Efficiency because he's going to be the guy running it
with Vivik Ramaswani. He tweets out various programs that are
wasting money or statistics. He comes acro it's really interesting.
If you don't follow what you should, you should be
on Twitter and you should follow us. But Peter Thiel,
one of his buddies from the old PayPal mafia, they
(33:09):
all became super rich out of inventing PayPal and all
what they're separate ways and did different great things, got
retweeted by Elon today Peter Thiel saying, the strong consensus
view in the DC establishment is that this is going
to go nowhere, that it's just absolutely impossible to fix things,
and this is going to be a very frustrating dead end.
(33:29):
The alternate view, I would say is you should never
bet against Elon. We all know there's an extraordinary amount
of waste and it's unsustainable. The six percent GDP deficits
the US has cannot be sustained. They probably can't even
be sustained for the rest of this decade, let alone longer.
See that's the thing, there is a math equation involved
in here. I'm frustrated that even some of my favorite
(33:52):
pundits are going with he's nibbling around the edges. It
won't make a difference. Ah, how about directionally we do something?
What is your answer?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Nothing? Do nothing? And let's direct people's gaze at the
growing impossibility of dealing with this enormous debt. Right, no kidding,
thing has to be done. Now. There are giant, powerful,
vested interests who want nothing to be done, and they'll
be fighting this tooth and nail. But again, let's lay
the spot or shine the spotlight on them.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
As amazing as Elan is with all the different things
that he's accomplished, making electric cars even possibly viable, or
space stuff or whatever, he's up against the most immovable
object in the history of a movable objects, the United
States federal bureaucracy. So I don't like his chances, but
I'm all for trying in any even incremental accomplishment I
(34:46):
feel like is good.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, right, yeah, I would agree just in dollars and cents,
You're one hundred percent right. But I think there's an
even greater significance to the what would you call it,
flushing them out of the underbrush and letting DC show
its true colors, make them fight you on making legitimate cuts,
get awareness going among the American people. Let's talk about
(35:12):
how much we all owe per person. Let's talk about
public employee unions. Let's talk about the fact that FDR
thought they were a terrible idea, just unworkable, and now
Trump's new Secretary of Labor is staunchly in favor of
public employee unions. What the hell is going on there? Anyway,
It's worth a fight by absolutely worth it.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Or talk about how no government or society has ever
survived this sort of excess spending. Ever it always ends
the same way. Yeah, Yeah, it's not a mystery. What's
going to happen?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
No, We're gonna be already spending as much on interest
as we are in defense.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Horrifying. We do four hours of this every single day, shocking.
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In Seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road
sign threatening other CEOs the city, blaming a private construction contractor.
At the University of Pennsylvania, where Menhioni graduated with engineering degrees,
an assistant professor appeared to praise the CEO's murder in
this TikTok video, saying she's never been prouder to be
a professor there, later saying she was regretful and doesn't
(00:44):
condone violence.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, except you just did publicly, Yeah, proudly and cheerfully. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I was reading the column in the New York Posts
from David hers Sonny's seems to be an actual debate
going on in the progressive left over whether slaying CEOs
is a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, And you see those posters going up in
New York essentially urging people to hunt down other CEOs
with their pictures and stuff like that. I guarantee there
is a ninety nine point six percent overlap between the
people putting up those posters and people tearing down posters
of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Sure that same
(01:29):
angry radical left nihilist, over educated moron class that's screwing
up so much about what is good in this country.
More on that attitude in a minute. Had a weird thing,
interesting thing happened on news Nation yesterday. A reporter facilitating
communication between prisoners were the murder scumbags being held and
(01:55):
the report, well, let's listen to it.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Let me tell them a question, Alex, hold on, let
me yell a question, guys, if you can hear me clearly,
do you guys have any sights on Luigi MANGIONI just
yell yes or no.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know if they're answering. They're flickering up.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're saying no, okay, so they're actually watching her on
TV in the prison, and then it's it's a little
delayed from before it gets to her, and then they no,
we can't see him.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, do you have a follow up? Wait? Wait, wait, yeah,
that's that's kind of funny. I I almost want to
hear more of that. What else? What else did she ask?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I know a lot of you are in the News Nation.
I have too many friends who are like avid watchers
of News Nation. I've got to get on board and
start recordings some of their shows on a regular basis
like I do every other cable cham.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm behind the curve on that. Yeah, I know a
lot of you that you are that I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
more sources is good if you have the time. We
played this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But to bring back up the conversation, this is Bill Burr,
comedian who i'm I'm a big fan of his comedy act.
This particular attitude he has would destroy the country.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So that's a problem.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
You know what's annoying me about this, This kid who
killed this CEO is none of these news programs are
talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general
public about this because of how these insurance companies treat
people when they are at their most vulnerable, after we've
all given them our money every month and now we
(03:46):
finally need you, and all you do is deny us,
and then these and all of these things are taking
the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know,
I gotta be honest with you, Okay, I love that
the CEOs are afraid right now, you should be, by
and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces,
(04:07):
and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just
don't pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
See a lot of.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Those things in what he said there are true or
can be true, but don't have any connection to so
you can scare or or or violently attack or murder CEOs.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right, are a.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Lot of companies greedy and sometimes CEOs are greedy and amoral? Yeah, sure,
I'm sure that happens in all kinds of industries. But
what's that got to do with. You can either murder
them in the street or have them be afraid to
do their jobs the way they want because you will.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hurt them or murder them. Play this through.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I realize you're an artist, Bill Burr, but anybody who
has this mindset play this out for me. How would
this work? How would society be structured? If mob violence
is the way people approach their job every day? Is
the mob going to kill me or my family today?
Are they happy with this move?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I can do it? Okay, I mean, how would this work? Well?
I think Bill Burt would answer you in his charming
Boston accent and explain to you that, well, companies would
reform and behave more responsibly so they aren't gone down
on the pavement by self righteous little rich boys.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Okay, well, I would say to Bill Burr, I wish
I could have this conversation with him, because's pretty smart guy,
and I'd love to talk to him because I'm a fan.
But hey, Bill Burr, you are a very edgy comedian
and you make jokes about trans people and all kinds
of different sort of stuff. So what if the trans
community decided your causing harm in their community, and so
they threaten you physically to come around to their thinking,
(05:49):
or they're going to hurt you or shoot you in
the street. Then how do you where do you draw
the line on these things?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I'm not as bad as a healthcare ceo. They
murder tens of thousands of people. Yeah, well, the trans
folks are gonna say, yeah, you caused thousands of duds,
You've made the world unsaved, blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean,
you're obviously right. It's it's worth kicking Elizabeth Warren one
more time, At least briefly. Charlie Cook was writing about
this review A beer that's my favorite I'm gonna have
(06:19):
me a beer. You gotta throw in that. Look how
normal I and down to earth I am. I'm gonna
have me a beer. Well, Harford academic has never uttered
in her life firewater indeed anyway, So she was one
of those people. Violence is never the answer, but people
can only be pushed so far. Then she explains why
it was justified to gun this poor son of a
(06:40):
gun down on the pavement, as Charlie Cook mentions. But
then he reminds us all. Oh. First of all, he
compares her to John Fetterman, who said, of the shooter,
he's the a hole. It's gonna die in prison. And
about anybody celebrating online, Fetterman said, a sore is going
to soar. That's what social media is about. I don't
know why the media wants to turn this into a story.
(07:01):
These trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously. But of
course these trolls anonymously include your fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren,
who is saying it publicly. But Fetterman went on, remember
he had two children that are going to grow up
without their father. It's vile. And if you've gunned someone
down that you don't happen to agree with their views
or the business they're in. Hey, you know, I'm next,
(07:23):
They're next, He's next, She's next, And as Charlie Cook writes,
Americans seeking good examples should resolve to be a fetterman
rather than a Warren. But then he points out that
she her cabal. You know, like in the NFL, they
have coaching trees, a bunch of the assistant coaches of
a Bill Belichick become head coaches and their assistant coaches,
(07:46):
and because they influence each other and they end up being,
you know, just the source of great coaches. Elizabeth Warren,
her cabal became the Biden administration and pushed him way
to the left. She was also the person that pushed
Kamala Harris way way to the left. In twenty nineteen,
(08:07):
during the campaign, she of her skinny old Northeastern woman academic,
you know image. She's she is unbelievably effective radical leftist
who has really screwed up the Democratic Party right.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
So she went on the warpath against anybody who didn't
agree with her and sent up smoke signals to let
them know, Hey, if you get on the wrong side
of me.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Right, and well played there. I don't think I didn't
notice that. I appreciate I appreciate you completely ignoring it.
Final note from Charlie Cook. She pushed everybody way left.
It should have been obvious that Warren was a crank
when she started tweeting out sentiments such as and this
(08:55):
is a quote, black, trans and CIS women, gender, nonconformed
and non binary people are the backbone of our democracy.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Wow, she speak with FOURK tongue, but it was not clear.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
If it was not clear, then the consequences of her
influence have now made the indictment clear. Of Warren is
a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and
a disaster for the basic human decency that we are
entitled to expect from our politicians. No ifs or butts
apply a reference to her, well you shouldn't kill people,
but he had it coming speech. Yeah. So, the good
(09:30):
folks at Reason dot com with a great, great piece
entitled the people Cheering Brian Thompson's murder can't have the
medical utopia that they want, whether private or public. Third
party payment for healthcare is a huge problem, and this
dovetails beautifully with what Craig the healthcare Guru was saying
on the show yesterday and if you didn't listen to it,
(09:52):
grab the podcast, maybe it was our three Yeah, uh,
yesterday's Armstrong Getty show Armstrong and Getty on demand. Instead
of rushing through this like a maniac when we you know,
take a break and come back to it. But the
realities of you know, third party payment screw everything up,
(10:14):
and we shall explain.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
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Speaker 4 (11:24):
Oh, drones have been spotted in Germany now similar to
the ones in New Jersey and across the country. All right,
we'll have the update on the whole drone story also
this hour's of Stay Tuned arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I hope people fully.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Recognize this is a funny thing to say over the
beach boys singing at Christmas song.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I hope people fully realize.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What a dangerous philosophy is going on here with the
whole I'm glad the CEO got gunned down thing. This
is not just your normal left right back and forth,
look how bad the others. This is the sort of
thing that catches on in societies and is very hard
to stop once it gets going.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yes, yeah, absolutely true. And it's also undeniable that if
somebody on the right says we need to target this district,
you're accused of fulling violence. Right. But if you say
we ought to gun down these mother blankers and then
they get gunned down, left says what me? Who may?
But having said that, it's interesting that eighty one percent
of people with private and health insurance are happy with
(12:30):
their insurance in America. Now, granted, when you do need it,
and there's that push and pull of no, you can't
have this test done, or you got to ask him
twice or whatever. That's a really uncomfortable thing and it
makes people mad. But and maybe it could be done better.
We're not on the take from United Healthcare or anybody
else around here. We're just trying to get to the
bottom of it.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But would you answer that question yes or no? Are
you happy with your health insurance? I'm a no, I
am Actually I was happier before Obamacare, when before more
deductibles became whatever they are, four thousand dollars for my family.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's insane. Yeah, in general, I am. But you know,
I've been reasonably healthy too, which is, you know, kind
of an indictment right there. I suppose to. He's going
to be, you know, work on being more grateful.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I went through cancer and it got mostly paid for,
and that could have not happened, I suppose. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It reminds me of you know, people who trust the
government to do all things well and good. Those are
people who never deal with the government. Anybody who's ever
spent a minute at a zoning office or whatever, it
doesn't feel that way anyway. The folks at Reason dot
com with a great, great piece. JD. Tussil wrote it,
I hope I'm saying his name right, but evoking a
collective scream of despair from socialists and anti corporate types.
(13:47):
Police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mandi and menu we know
who he is, Thompson. They insist the murder victim stood
in the way of the sort of healthcare that they
think they deserve, and shooting him down on the street
was some sort of bloody minded strike for justice. The
assassin's fans and the legal system has yet to convict
anybody fur the crime are moral degenerates. But they're also
(14:09):
dreaming if they think insurance executives like Thompson or all
that stands between them and they are visions of a
single pair medical system that satisfies every desire. While there
is a lot wrong with the main way healthcare is
paid for and delivered in the US, what the haters
want is probably not achievable, and the means many of
them prefer would make things worse. There's an old joke
(14:31):
among health policy wonks according from a Cato Institute. According
to a Cato Institute guy from twenty seventeen, what the
American people really want from healthcare reform is unlimited care
from the doctor of their choice, with no way free
of charge. Correct. The problem, no matter how healthcare is
delivered is that it requires labor, time, and resources that
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are available in finite supply. Somebody must decide how to
allocate medications, treatments, physicians, and hospital beds, and how to
pay for at all. And a common assumption in some
circles is that Americans ration medicine by price, handing an
advantage to the wealthy and sticking it to the poor.
Of course, and they quote Vox. Of course, the alternatives,
(15:13):
supposedly is one where healthcare is universal, with bills paid
by government, so everyone has access to care, except most
Americans rely on somebody else to pay the bulk of
their medical bills, just like Canadians, Germans and Britons. And
while there are huge differences among the systems presented as
alternatives to what we do in the US, third party payers,
whether government or insurance companies, do enormous damage to the
(15:35):
provision of healthcare. This is something Craig the healthcare Guru,
and I have also been saying for the longest time.
When you establish a giant, profitable middleman to get between
me and my doctor, that's not going to serve me.
It complicates things, It clouds things. They write. Contrary to
(16:01):
conventional wisdom, health insurance, private or otherwise does not make
health care affordable. Right Roade an expert back in twenty thirteen,
the third party payment system is the principal force behind
healthcare price inflation in the US. The dominance a third
party payment, whether United Healthcare or others, or Medicare or
Medicaid or something else, makes it difficult to know the
price for procedures medicines and treatments, because there really isn't
(16:22):
one price when third party payers are involved, it's all
the subject of giant, complex negotiations. You pay three hundred dollars,
I pay fifteen hundred dollars, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
In the room next to you, right, Or when the truble,
when I was going to pay cash for a scan
that wasn't going to be covered by insurance years ago,
shopped around. The price was so different depending on where
he was, Like, why if I drive twenty miles.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Over here, I say four hundred dollars? Why? And again,
different kinds of people pay wildly different prices at the
same facility on the same day, right, which is insane.
I'd love to drill down on that a little more,
but we don't have on a time I wanted to
get to this part. When government lawyers are third party
assurances responsible for paying the bills, consumers have no incentive
to control costs. After all, the premiums already paid, right,
(17:12):
or the tax is already paid, right, So why do
I care if it's bloated or inflating or whatever. And
then they get into quite appropriately, how government run health
care systems have these problems and more because instead of profit,
you have taxes being taken from people run through the
bureaucracy then paying for the doctors and nurses and medicines
(17:33):
and stuff like that. So it's really scarce and it's
rationed by time. It takes twenty eight weeks in Canada
between your referral to a specialist and when you get
to see them. Oh my god, would you like me
to do that math for you. I'll give you a
hunt a hint. Six months would be twenty four weeks
(17:56):
and it takes twenty eight weeks. Wow. Yeah, Wow. Rationing
happens everywhere. Man, There's more to be said on this,
and that is pretty interesting. Hey, we're being invaded by drones.
Is everybody aware of that? Yeah, being invaded by drunes
by the.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hype, the Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We should be doing some very virgin intelligence analysis and
take them out of the GUIs, especially if they're flying
over airports or military basis. Shouould be shot down if necessary.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That Senator Richard Blumenthal, so not a US House member, senator,
is a bigger deal and a respected senator at least
by the media saying we should shoot down the mysterious
drones and nobody's able to identify yet. Now, yesterday we
had the congress person from New Jersey saying there was
an Iranian mothership off shore and all that kind of
(18:51):
crazy talk, and nobody has any idea what that guy's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You'd think Blumenthal, with his access to.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's not classified information, but lots of information, would know
whether it's necessary to shoot them down or not. Based
at this point.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I would think he'd have access either direct like give
me the file, or know who to talk to, yeah,
to any information? Or are we actually that completely ignorant
of what the heck is going on? So here's a
different congress person, also from New Jersey. I haven't heard
this one yet.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
I understand why so many in our community in our
state are concerned when you hear reports of drones flying
above us or see activity yourself, and federal agencies responsible
for controlling the airspace don't properly and quickly brief the public.
I want you to know that, based on the information
the briefings that I've received to date, I'm not concerned
about any imminent threats to public safety or our national
(19:48):
security regarding these drones. But and I've made this very
clear to the FBI, the Homeland Security in the FAA,
the agency is chiefly responsible for monitoring drowne activity. They
must immediately disclose more information to the public. It's totally
completely unacceptable that you have all this drone activity going
on that people are sitting with their own eyes. And
(20:08):
even if it's not all drone activity, and some of
it is manned aircraft, there appears to be plenty of
drone activity that people are seeing their own eyves. The
fact that the federal agency is responsible for briefing the
public have not come forward in a clear way is unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
He needs to wake up, Pink. He's ignoring the Iranian mothership.
But yeah, here's the mothership, dude, Well here's the real deal, Harris.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the
Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people and from
very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'm going to tell you the real deal.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that
contains these drones.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal.
It's off.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
The he's to the United States of America. They've launched
thrones is everything that we can see over here, and
the gun These are from high sources.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I don't say this lightly. Yeah, they're high.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
All right, Well that's interesting, So Hanson's sake, whichever, those
are two different districts in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I want to know the media and IQ of each
of those two districts, because the one guy certainly seemed
like an upgrade over that guy.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, yeah, so Hanson, our executive producer. Hanson's take on
the other guy was he knows what they are and
isn't worried about them, but he can't say and he's
his message is, Hey, the people who have are the
clearance to say need to say what these things are?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Ah? Yeah, is that the way you took it? Yeah? Yeah, Well,
and you've got to combine all of that with the
fact that now oldership Hank, everybody who sees anything larger
than a sparrow in the sky is saying, look, it's
one of those drones. You know, if it's some kid hobbyist,
or it's it's the regularly scheduled flight from lax to
(22:03):
Las Vegas or whatever. Everybody's now it's it's like you said,
it's like the Salem witch hunt. Everybody's seeing witches in
the woods, which is a witch. Yeah, drones have been
spotted in Germany now, so it had spread across whist
they have. It'd been spotted spread across the United States yesterday,
and now they's been spotted in Germany now, no new Germany, Michael.
(22:27):
They've been spotted at your local hobby store too. What
do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I spotted them over a new house that's having an
open house on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, no kidding. So yeah, it's become silly and confusing,
and there still might be something menacing going on. Witness
the Chinese freaking spy balloon or all of the software
sleeping in all of our systems right now planted by
the Chai cooms and all the spies in America. You're
not Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. Well, okay,
(22:58):
play play fifty. This is John Kirby.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I mean he's as high up a spokesman that anybody
trusts as you can get in the White House.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities,
we have not been able to and neither have state
or local law enforcement of authorities corroborate any of the
reported visual sightings.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So is he saying there aren't a videotape on the news?
So is he saying there aren't any drones? I mean
that it's all made up. Maybe we should hear the
rest of us roll on.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We're concerned about it too.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
We are still investigating this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I can't tell you definitively.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I cannot characterize for you definitively what these sightings are.
I can just go back to what I said at
the opening.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We've looked at the imagery.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
We can't corroborate some of the reported sightings through our
own expert analysis using sophisticated detection techniques. But that doesn't
mean that, you know, we're putting our pen down here
this afternoon and calling in a day. We have no
evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose
a national security or a public safety threat.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
See.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That's the thing that has been driving me crazy for
several days, is the constant we don't know what these are.
They aren't a threat. Those two sentences can't go together, right, right,
That doesn't make any sense. You know what the perfect
storm that I just realize it is occurring. The public
is going to demand something be done. We're only like
(24:31):
ten days away. The United States Air Force is going
to shoot down Santa Oh lord, that's what's going to
end up happening.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That's the worst possible outcome. It's among them me reindeer
meat everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Oh my god, toys scattered across the countryside.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, you wanted sometwn We shut some down. You're happy? Yeah,
it was, well, that was you know what. Honestly, you
remember after the whole Chinese spy balloon nightmare, and they did.
Biden is shockingly the Mummy in his administration didn't react
at all. Then, as it became clear how horrifying that was,
(25:12):
they shot down every kid's birthday balloon in America for
about a week, just so they look strong and decisive.
I forgot about that. So yeah, you keep.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
That in your the back of your mind while you're
listening to all this. The US government at the highest
level is capable of incredible flailing. I mean that was flailing,
Like I'm in charge. You let the one thing go
clear gouns the country. Then you started shooting down gender
revealed balloons.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Depression weather Boy Scout packs doing an experiment for their
Eagle Scout Badge Bully. There goes the balloon.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Stupid though, Santa gonna be blasted out of a sky
by an ICBM if you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Heard it here first. That's a lot of ordinance for
one obese gentleman and a sleigh guided by diminutive reindeer.
Why are they tiny reindeer in the popular conception of
Santa Claus because they would have to be fairly small
to fit on most roofs.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You're gonna make Tim the lawyer call in. This is
one of his things.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh no, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Really, the invention of the whole Santa sleigh reindeer thing
came from I believe Coca Cola, and Tim is big
on this. But they were, as it says in the
songs eight Tiny Reindeer. Everything was miniature, but somehow got
blown up over time to like regular size. And that
really bothers him that the origin story has been lost. Yeah,
because in all of your movies you got full size reindeer,
(26:44):
like the size of a horse up on your roof, right,
and that's full sized sleigh and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So was the sleigh tiny as well as the reindeer,
because I'm familiar with the reference to eight tiny reindeer,
but nobody references the size of the sleigh. And I
don't need all of specs. I'm not, you know, that
serious about it. You know, my kids are and Santa's
normal size, right or is No, He's a jolly little elf.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
My kids are past the age now of the of this.
And on one hand, you know the magic has gone
of just that whole thing. When Santa is full on
real and the wonder and everything. It's just it's nothing
could be more fantastic. As a child or a parent,
It's a hell of a lot easier this way, much easier.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
We had so many wonderful traditions with the kids. I mean,
just I'll tear up thinking about it, but I mean
it was the It was the stockings and we would
put out reindeer foods Santa's reindeer and they would eat it.
Then he would leave candy in their their shoes, I mean,
because they would read about various cultures at school or
be told about him and their Christmas celebrations, and they'd say,
(27:54):
we should put our shoes out. What am I gonna
say no, put your damn shoes back in the closet.
That's fun to American Santa doesn't mess with people's shoes.
He messes with their.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Socks if they're hung by a fireplace for some reason,
hanging with careless, slovenly, hanging, zero presence.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So anyway, Yeah, there would be shoes to fill, and
the reindeer food would be put out, and that was
oatmeal and glitter. And then two continue the the the
loving idea that indeed the reindeer had been there consuming
the reindear food, somebody would have to clean it up
(28:35):
well by eating it, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, yeah I did that. I'd almost forgotten many times.
It just helped got to eat part of the cookie.
Oh that Yeah, of course Grant was here. Nature cookie.
That stuff is awesome, But like I said, it's not
as wonderful now, but it's certainly easier. What is that
thing you wanted? Okay, I got it at the store.
It'll be under the tree considerably less magic.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yes, it's cute if your kid is five, but if
he's seventeen, it's not cute. No eh. Yeah, the UK
that the other day has postponed indefinitely hormone treatments for
momentarily confused adolescents. The National Health Authority just backtracked and
(29:23):
said no, trans women cannot breastfeed. After all, it's a
bad idea. The quote unquote milk is not comparable to
a woman's real breast milk. Yeah, as the comment went
to the story, I'm absolutely shocked that men can't breastfeed.
This is real breaking news, shocking stuff. You how did
(29:44):
we get swept away by such madness? Well, and it's
continuing in a lot of quarters.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
But man, I got If you're taking so many drugs
that you start to leak out your male nipples and
then you're trying to feed an infant with that, you
are crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, agreed, Yeah, yeah, Wow. Super human elves delivering packages
worldwide at speeds that defy Einstein's series is reasonable compared
to that. You're right, You're right? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Any comment on any of this?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Our text line four one five KFTCARTROI on.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
The eve of his ninety ninth birthday, beloved actor Dick
Van Dyke now sharing the harrowing moment he narrowly evacuated
this week's wildfire in Malibu.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
I forgot how old I am, and I realized I
was crawling to get out anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Twenty something appear as the wind driven Franklin fire came
down the canyon behind his home.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I have a fire hose the hooks up to my pool.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Van Dyke tried to douse the house, but it proved
too much.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I thought, my god, I'm not going to make it
out of here. Because I was trying to crawl to
the car.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I had exhausted my I couldn't get a Three neighbors
came and carried me out and came back and put
a little fire in the guest house and saved me
than gone for them.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Dick Van Dyke ninety nine today, ninety nine years old today.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Happy birthday. Dick hooked up.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
A fire hose to his pool and was trying to
spray off the house himself. Exhausted himself so much. I
get so tired at my I'm half his age. Uh
to uh do things like that. I can't imagine being
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, Wow, sounds great.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, man, genetics and lifestyle. I don't know how much
of it is which, but who Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I got some doctor friends who Well, genetics, you've.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Got to have because my dad has it. I mean,
my dad absolutely has like the Dick Van Dyke genetics.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, you can ruin your genetic advantage with your life, sure, absolutely,
but you cannot cancel your genetic disadvantage with a great
life style. He might be able to, you know, help,
there's certainly no reason not to be healthy. But you
know what I'm driving at all.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Those times he tripped over the ottoman and didn't break
a hip or anything.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What a talented dude, Oh my gosh, and a good
man too by all accounts.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I was referring to the opening of the Dick Van
Dyke Show, which was in black and white. That's how
old that show is. And so his heyday was what
nineteen sixty is that when he was like at the
beak of his popularity long before we were born.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Uh yeah, ish, I mean he continued to be a
loved figure in movie Oh yeah, yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, yeah, he was old when he was in those
Disney movies when I was a kid, though middle aged certainly.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, though he could hoof it like a kid.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Elon tweets about Doge a lot the Department of Government
Efficiency because he's going to be the guy running it
with Vivik Ramaswani. He tweets out various programs that are
wasting money or statistics. He comes acro it's really interesting.
If you don't follow what you should, you should be
on Twitter and you should follow us. But Peter Thiel,
one of his buddies from the old PayPal mafia, they
(33:09):
all became super rich out of inventing PayPal and all
what they're separate ways and did different great things, got
retweeted by Elon today Peter Thiel saying, the strong consensus
view in the DC establishment is that this is going
to go nowhere, that it's just absolutely impossible to fix things,
and this is going to be a very frustrating dead end.
(33:29):
The alternate view, I would say is you should never
bet against Elon. We all know there's an extraordinary amount
of waste and it's unsustainable. The six percent GDP deficits
the US has cannot be sustained. They probably can't even
be sustained for the rest of this decade, let alone longer.
See that's the thing, there is a math equation involved
in here. I'm frustrated that even some of my favorite
(33:52):
pundits are going with he's nibbling around the edges. It
won't make a difference. Ah, how about directionally we do something?
What is your answer?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Nothing? Do nothing? And let's direct people's gaze at the
growing impossibility of dealing with this enormous debt. Right, no kidding,
thing has to be done. Now. There are giant, powerful,
vested interests who want nothing to be done, and they'll
be fighting this tooth and nail. But again, let's lay
the spot or shine the spotlight on them.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
As amazing as Elan is with all the different things
that he's accomplished, making electric cars even possibly viable, or
space stuff or whatever, he's up against the most immovable
object in the history of a movable objects, the United
States federal bureaucracy. So I don't like his chances, but
I'm all for trying in any even incremental accomplishment I
(34:46):
feel like is good.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, right, yeah, I would agree just in dollars and cents,
You're one hundred percent right. But I think there's an
even greater significance to the what would you call it,
flushing them out of the underbrush and letting DC show
its true colors, make them fight you on making legitimate cuts,
get awareness going among the American people. Let's talk about
(35:12):
how much we all owe per person. Let's talk about
public employee unions. Let's talk about the fact that FDR
thought they were a terrible idea, just unworkable, and now
Trump's new Secretary of Labor is staunchly in favor of
public employee unions. What the hell is going on there? Anyway,
It's worth a fight by absolutely worth it.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Or talk about how no government or society has ever
survived this sort of excess spending. Ever it always ends
the same way. Yeah, Yeah, it's not a mystery. What's
going to happen?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
No, We're gonna be already spending as much on interest
as we are in defense.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Horrifying. We do four hours of this every single day, shocking.
It's in our contract. If you ever missed a segment
or an hour and you want to make it up,
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